Community Media Club

The Community Media Club Returns To Destinations October 2009

(Sign up September 9th at Destinations)

A range of exciting activities to interest everyone at Saltburn Digital Village.

Overview

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You will learn tools and techniques to improve your computer using experience. This program is not for the complete computer beginner but nor is it extremely advanced. It is mostly about fun and being sociable and creative. Stories, information, pictures and articles generated in individual web spaces will feed content into the Saltburn Digital Village website. You will learn how to draw material that interests you into your own space and how in turn your own material can be delivered to a community website thus forming a community media network.

Tools for Learning and Leisure We will show you how to make your web browser look the same wherever in the world you log on. You can have a range of links and resources to handle your entire web experience and this can be your experience wherever you log in (e.g. the library, home, community centre).  We will also introduce you to ways of bringing all your online interests into one easy place and we’ll use this throughout the series of workshops to develop and communicate with each other
(Very) Simple Image Editing It is a fundamental pre-requisite of making any kind of web content that you are able to prepare images for the web. This session is not about learning Photoshop although moving on to Photoshop (the industry standard image editing software) could be a progression route. The things people largely want to do with images at a most fundamental level are: Get the images out of the camera, Resize, physical size and File Size (most important for the web) Crop and Adjust brightness/contrast. This is so simple and it’s fun
Social Networking and Blogging We have our very own Digital Village Social Network and we’ll get you connected show you how to use it. We’ll also talk about things like Flickr, Youtube and Twitter.  We’ll show you how to use a simple email to update your webspaces and how to use email to create a web diary (blog) including pictures. We’ll also look at how you can keep track of all the other participants’ stories

Detail of Sessions (might change slightly – or a lot)

7^th October – Set everyone up with a Gmail account. Forwarding to their home email if they wish. Everyone sets up an iGoogle and populates with some course specific widgets
14^th October – Editing images the simple way. Sending and uploading images. Some online image tools.
21^st October – Blogging the really really simple way
28^th October – Setting up to write articles for www.saltburn.org.uk doing it with images and doing it the easy way – RSS Feeds
4^th November – No Session
11^th November – Social Networks, what’s it all about? Lets give it a try
18^th November – Writing to your blogs, social networks and everything from one place
25^th November – Simple video making

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